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AL The Comment called D (The Djeridensis Working) by 666 Celephais Press Anno IVviii 1 13° b 2 2° e August 6th, 2000 e.v. … A Collection of Sacred Magick | The Esoteric Libraruy | www.sacred-magick.com THE COMMENT CALLED “D” – CHAPTER 1 Chapter I Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Oasis of Nefta – Tunisia – Hotel du Djérid. An. XIX 1 in 26½° d, 2 W 8 in 14° i 1. Nuit defined Nuit is all that may be, and is shewn by means of any one that is. 2. Pantheism of AL. The Book of the Law shows forth all things as God. 3-4. Virtues of the Soul All things are able to know all; all are alike in this, at the end of all. 5. Mission of Aleister Crowley, I The Beast, the Man Aleister Crowley whose number is 666, help to show forth the Beast 666. this truth to men. 6. 666 as Artist. I am the Point of View (as of the artist) from which Nuit may be seen by all; for I am Her inmost thought, her sense, and her Voice. 7. Mine H.G.A. Aiwass: His Mine Angel sayeth Her song into mine ear. He is Aiwass, who is the Word of Nature and Office, AL his the Law as also its mode of action. He serveth Silence through his speech, Word. which stilleth evil sounds, not known nor fused into one tune. 8-9. Nature of Mankind. The essence of a Man and Woman – each being a Star or sovereign God poised in Space by its own act – is clothed in thoughts and deeds as is its Nature, hidden by them. This essence is all-worthy; adore it, and the light of all that may be shall be shed upon you. 10. Masters of Mankind defined. Those who adore and love all things alike, for that they are of Truth, are yet but few, and are not known of men. Yet being free of fear and lust their power controls the many1 whose souls are subject to limit, the limit of knowledge, which is always two, and can be counted. 11. The Secret of Government. Men adore Naught, although they deem Naught God and Man; thus the Pure Fool rules them, and saves them from base knowledge which is false. 12. The Nature of an Act: its All acts are in truth acts of Love. Fulfil all Loves that may be, to the full. Be virtue. this in Light, before all Stars, that all may see and rejoice. 13. Nuit expressed in an Eidolon. Nuit is formed into an Image of a Woman, that She may be the symbol of all ways of going in Love. Her relation to Mankind. She is our Goal and our own heart’s essence of Will. Her Mother-Joy as Nature. She is Nature, who is glad of the birth of all that cometh forth. 14. The Secret of Joy. The Soul of Man flameth forth in Love unto the utmost Spaces of the Stars, and hath his joy of all of them. All events are children of Nuit. Every event doth fulfil some Love, and each is thenceforth of the Body of Nuit, which is event as Her Soul is Lust to bring forth, and the chance so to do. 15. Mission of 666 and his I, The Beast 666, am called to shew this worship and send it forth into the world; woman. Her Nature & Office. by my Woman called the Scarlet Woman, who is any woman that receives and She is the Scarlet Woman, H transmits my Solar Word and Being, is this My Work achieved; for without KOKKINA GUNH, 667, as he Woman man hath no power. By Us let all men learn that all that may be is their is TO MEGA QHRION, The Way of Joy for them to go; and that all souls are of the Soul of True Light. Great Wild Beast 666. 16. Our Function shewn in a Figure. I am a Sun, giving out Light and Life; but she is their guide in darkness, making them pure, single of heart, awake to the Highest. Our Powers. I have the power to kindle in my mind the Essence of the Abstract Soul; she that of taking all that may be dear and near and clear to men and women, that so they all may find their joy in all. 17. 666 and 667 set apart for this I and my woman alone are chosen for this work; all others are best and truest as Work. they seek Nuit in their own Way. 18. The Divine Ideas revealed in this The Royal Snake of Wisdom bearing the might and right of Life and Death, the Book. AL invoked upon 666 and endless energy of Magick, burns on our brows. 667. 1 originally “multitude” (note by 31-666-31 (Leah Hirsig), the original typist,). 1 THE COMMENT CALLED “D” – CHAPTER 2 19. On us the Soul of Space is bent, so that to all alike we may show all things as the Way of Joy. 20. The Key of the Magick of the New The Mode of Magick is explained in the Word Abrahadabra, whose power I Aeon of Heru-Ra-Ha. declare and whose secret I expound in other writings. 21. Nuit further defined Her relation Nuit is not beheld of any God or Man; for they are fixed Event, they are Facts, to Gods, Men, Heaven, Earth, and while She is the ever-to-be. She therefore is to be held worthy, she and that Self to Her Lord Hadit. which may enjoy her Love; seek not those joys which, being actual, cease to exhale rapture. 22. Her Name: 666 is taught a name Nuit is the name by which this Starlight Yearning is to be known of men; to me more sacred yet. the Beast she hath given a secret Name in that Great Night wherein I came to perfect Oneness2 with All things that might be ever. Nuit further defined. Reality and Nuit is Space beyond the idea of Limit or Measure; She is also All Points of illusion: the None, the One, the View no less than All Vistas seen therefrom. Bind nothing, for all things alike Many & the All, identified pertain to her, and her Nature is to compose All in One and Naught. One thing through Her. is in the end like all the rest; the seeming not alike comes as a dream from choosing images after one’s own heart to worship them; thus each, though true as one of the All, is false if thought of as one apart from the rest. 23. Understanding of this Mystery the He is the chief of all who is not tricked into this trap of setting limits to things, Key to Chieftainship. by which he blasphemes each, and makes all false. 24. Nuit: in Her Name are hidden Nuit is known by the Word of a Riddle of Letter and Number: this also will I secrets of Truth. make plain in other writings. 25-6. Nuit proves to Aleister Crowley I, asking Nuit: Who am I? and: What shall be the sign? (that I am who I am) that he is in truth 666 by means of was told by means of a Riddle, so that I might be sure that the answer came from a riddle and a Sign. Her and not from mind own mind, that I was 666. Also the sign was shewn me in a Riddle, as well as in the English of the Text. These matters will I set forth elsewhere.3 27. 666 asks Nuit to reveal Herself to I called Her “O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven” – which is a marvel of the 4 Men. Inmost Nature of Number as I shew in my other Comment – and prayed that men might come to think of Her not as One, which implies the idea of Limit, but as None which is beyond bound. 28-9. Nuit is that which is equally 0 & She answered: None and Two. This also is a marvel of number, and is the Truth 2. This Equation 0=2 the Master- of the Essence of Nature of all Things, the Root of the Tree of Thought, as I shall Key of the Understanding of the shew elsewhere. Nature of the Universe. 30. Nuit shews the object of creating She said: The world exists as two, for only so can there be known the Joy of the Illusion of Duality. Love, whereby are Two made One. Aught that is One is alone, and has little pain in making itself two, that it may know itself, and love itself, and rejoice therein. 31. Mankind in general not worthy of Heed not the petty woes of men, trifles, with petty joys to square the account. attention. These are but dreams within dreams, and those to whom I speak the Word of Nuit are chosen of Her to pass beyond these phantoms into the world of real joy and Sorrow – which also is Joy, and the Key and Force thereof. 32. Mankind to obey 666, to follow Let all men obey me, The Beast, the Prophet of Nuit! For my number is 666, the his method of attainment to the Number of the Sun. That is, I am the Light and Centre of their system of Stars; knowledge of Nuit and the and my Word is as a ray to them who are of Earth.
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